The Abridged Series: So many it's practically a meme, the most popular one being None Piece. For a long time there were so many absolutely horrible ones that LittleKuriboh made a video parodying the worst trends in abridged series using One Piece, the punchline of which was that it was still the best one so far.

A talking starfish that the Straw Hats meet named Pappug learned to speak human tongue because when he was a kid he believed himself to be a human. Why? "Hitode" is Japanese for starfish, and "hito desu" is Japanese for "I'm a human." A pun convinced him that he was human, and by the time he realized he was not, he had already learned to speak. Even Luffy questions how exactly that works.

Zoro, who can and most likely will get lost under any circumstances, including running down a straight hallway with no exits. He also once got lost on the beginning of a narrow cliff. A trait shared with Ryouga from Ranma ½, who can get lost trying to go from one room in a house to another room. By going outside, and not noticing this is a problem.

After the Skypeia arc, one of the side-stories shown on the title page is Gedatsu falling to the surface, where he ends up helping someone dig a hot spring, all while being his usual ditzy self and forgetting such basic human functions as breathing, blinking, eating food with your mouth instead of your ear, and not defying gravity and standing on the wall.

Acquired Poison Immunity: Not immunity, but close to it. We find out in Fishman Island that ever since Luffy recovered from Magellan's various toxins, he is now incredibly resistant to ALL THE POISONS IN THE WORLD. Luffy would have to eat an enormous amount of poison, enough to instantly kill a giant, for it to affect him. Which Luffy proceeds to do in a later arc, because he's a moron.

Action Bomb: Averted, as the same power that gives Mr. 5 his explosive abilities keeps them from harming him.

Action Girl: Hancock, Robin, Nami, Tashigi... and Iva and Inazuma when they're in a "feminine mood".

Act of True Love: There are many of these in One Piece. Many, many, many. Some of them are about as flashy as it gets, like when the Straw Hats declared war on the entire world for the sake of one comrade, or when the Whitebeards went to rescue Ace in similar circumstances. But just as many are discreet and hidden, like Soldier-san's devotion to his protegee.

Actual Pacifist: The royal Riku family has not brought a single war upon its country for eight hundred years. Even a threat of invasion did not get them to take up arms - they had to be taken over in order to force them to do so. The former king strikes with the flat of his blade when forced to fight, and his granddaughter has a reputation as undefeated despite never hitting her opponent at all.

Adaptation Distillation: Movie 9 is an alternate version of Drum Island, seemingly placed after the CP9 arc, and it manages to perfectly retain everything that made the original arc good, while also making some changes to keep things interesting for old fans.

In the manga, Zoro's hair is a grass-green shade, and is almost exactly the same color as his haramaki (waistband). In the anime, it's a mint-green color, and definitely does not match the haramaki.

Robin has brown eyes in the manga, Strong World, and Film Z, but blue eyes in the anime.

In the manga, Law has dark blue hair and yellow eyes, but in the anime, has black hair and Gray Eyes. The coat he wears for the Dressrosa arc is also changed from black (manga) to chocolate brown (anime).

Yasopp's hair goes from being black in the manga to a dirty blonde in the anime.

Makino's hair is black in the manga, but an odd dark green-ish color in the anime.

Adaptation Expansion: Instead of relying on filler arcs to provide padding, the anime eventually took to following a 1:1 chapter/episode pacing, expanding on and lengthening the already-present material. It also fully covered the fates of the other eight Straw Hats following their defeat by Kuma presented while Luffy was traveling to Impel Down.

Oda has admitted that despite the manga being so long and stuffed with ideas and happenings, if he had his way there would be even MORE. His editors tend to make him throw out a lot of ideas which aren't essential to keeping the story moving. These concepts often make it into the anime.

They also show Rob Lucci's backstory in frightening detail.

The anime also adapts the cover illustrations for chapters 35-37, 39, 42-43, 46-48, and 50-51, which chronicle Buggy after his defeat at the hand of Luffy, from the time he is nearly eaten by a giant bird, to when he meets Gaimon, and the first time he joins forces with Alvida into two full-length episodes.

Many of the major fights Post-Time Skip have been expanded, most likely for two reasons: 1. padding, and 2. so that the villains don't suffer under The Worf Effect so badly like they do in the manga.

The anime cuts out a scene from the manga where Luffy as a child scars himself to try and impress Shanks, thus it's never explained where he got such a scar.

During the Baratie arc, as the Straw Hats head towards the titular restaurant, their guide Johnny tells Zoro that the "hawk-eyed man" he's looking for is said to show up there. Later, it's revealed he confused him with "Old Red-Eye, who drank so much, his eyes turned red." The anime keeps the first scene intact, but not the second, leaving Johnny's story hanging.

The anime adapted only two mini-adventures (Coby/Helmeppo and Buggy's story). This became a problem for those who have not read the manga and don't know how, for example, Jango and Fullbody have become marines or Hatchan escaped from the prison and met Camie.

The Straw Hat's original entrance to the New World was excised in order to make room for more filler.

Zoro gets two in the Warship Island Arc. The first has him remark that he can cut through anything, conflicting with an important plot point where Zoro can't cut steel. The other has the crew meeting a dragon, making Zoro's claim of "not believing in dragons" during Thriller Bark seem silly.

Zoro's claim about dragons is made even funnier, when in One Piece Unlimited Cruise, Zoro's animal themed costume is one of a dragon.

Made even worse now since the crew has run into an actual dragon. And they ATE IT.

Similarly, after the timeskip, Chopper is shown eating a Rumble Ball when transforming into one of his extra forms, since the anime team assumed Oda made a mistake by not showing this is the manga. The Fishman Island arc later reveals that Chopper now only needs to use the Rumble Ball to access his Monster Point form.

During Fishman Island, Hody Jones' entire reason for hating humans is nothing but racism, as humans never actually did anything to him. This loses meaning in the anime due to a filler scene where Arlong saves a young Hody from a bunch of humans.

In Dressrosa, the audience learns via flashback that Law's full name is Trafalgar D. Water Law. In the anime, Doflamingo at one point calls him by this name, even though Law never told it to him (he just told Doflamingo that he was a "D" as well; Doffy had no way of knowing about the "Water" in his name).

Akainu appeared in the background of a group shot just over a month after his present design was unveiled in the manga, Jimbei was shown among the Warlords, and Shiryuu's shadow showed up in Impel Down. In Dressrosa, brief flashes of Corazon together with Child Law appeared before his proper introduction in Law's flashback.

Nami is introduced in the first few episodes, with her own storyline, before her manga introduction during the Buggy arc.

Addiction-Powered: Franky's case is a bit different: He's a cyborg who uses cola as an energy source, mostly because he loves cola. (He can use other carbonated drinks, juices or even tea, with... mixed results)

Adipose Rex: Wapol, who is able to eat absolutely anything and is appropriately obese as a result. He can subvert it at will if he needs to, though.

Brook is a rare case where he was an adult in his flashback. Instead of the usual childhood traumas the other Straw Hats had, Brook's past dealt with a parent/authority figure losing friends and loved ones to tragedy and fighting and Brook ending up old and alone.

Shanks, while one of the most easygoing and laidback characters, freaked out when Luffy was kidnapped by a bandit.

Nami's mother Bellemere facing the decision to either save herself and deny her children's existence or save her children and be killed by Arlong. She chooses the latter.

Boa Hancock and her sisters were the youngest members of their crew and the second their older crewmates took their eyes off of them, they were kidnapped and sold as slaves. It took them years to get home.

Advanced Ancient Acropolis: It's implied that there is (or was) one of these prior to the formation of the World Government, complete with superweapons powerful enough to destroy entire islands, during a period known as the "Void Century". Any and all knowledge of it has been suppressed, and anyone attempting to regain that knowledge will be hunted down and annihilated, along with any surrounding territory. Nico Robin's dream is to learn what happened.

Advancing Wall of Doom: Chief Warden Magellan becomes a rare non-videogame example in the latter part of the Impel Down Arc, once it becomes clear just how overpowered he is.

Adventure-Friendly World: The world this takes place in is an argument for Intelligent Design theory, as the very geography seems tailor-made for wacky pirating adventures, and it strains credulity that it could have occurred naturally. The planet is mostly covered with oceans dotted with small islands. The only large landmass perfectly bisects the planet at the prime meridian. The equator, known as the Grand Line, is bordered north and south by "Calm Belts" with no water or air movement, making it impossible to sail through, and they're infested with giant, incredibly powerful Sea Monsters so attempting to make it through by oar power or other means is inadvisable in most circumstances. Standard compasses don't work (because of reasons), so the only way to navigate is through a "Log Pose," which locks onto the magnetic field of the next island on the Line and requires a varying amount of time to "reset" upon arriving there, explaining why sailors have time to fool around at the Town of the Week on every island, why they can't just sail directly for the MacGuffin at the end of the Line, and why there isn't regular trade or cultural exchange between most islands (justifying some of the Schizo Tech in the process). The World Government has special navigational Applied Phlebotinum that allows them to bypass some of these restrictions, explaining why they're able to show up exactly where they need to be to cause trouble for Our Heroes.

Adventure Series: The series is about Luffy's great adventure with his friends. Invoked, to the point where Luffy's love for adventure trumps his willingness to continue it if he gets spoiled about the ending!

Adventure Towns: Though usually these are destinations for story arcs, short or long, rather than Place of the Week.

Aerith and Bob: All over the place. Most of the groups tend to have members whose names have diverse linguistic origins. The nine enemy Supernovas actually stand out because the eight captains have a consistent naming theme.

Affably Evil: A fairly common trait, due to the moral ambiguity of many pirates and Marines. Many of the Marines who are incredibly cruel, sadistic individuals in combat behave pretty pleasantly towards their fellow Marines and even the pirates they fight, and the same is true of many pirates.

Admiral Kizaru casually makes small talk with pirates before kicking them through buildings.

Big Bad Blackbeard is this to everyone, no matter the circumstance. Yeah, he tried to capture Luffy that one time, and he handed Ace over to be executed, but he doesn't mind if Luffy goes and saves him. Hell, he even praises Luffy for finding Skypeia and growing stronger. He genuinely seems to carry no grudges against people he slaughters/maims.

Foxy, despite being a Dirty Coward and amassing his crew by winning them from Davy Back Fights he more than likely cheated in, genuinely does care about his crew as much as they care about him.

Afro Asskicker: Sengoku and Brook. Luffy also wore a fake afro during his fight with Foxy. It actually helped him win.

Alan Smithee: The Japanese actors for the Straw Hat Pirates have used psuedonyms based on "Sokotsuya" for characters outside of their primary roles.

Alas, Poor Villain: The loss of his crew turned Omatsuri to the most movie evil character so far, yet you consider how much he missed his crew and tried to revive them even as hollow shells and how his voice started cracking at the end as he regretted the loss of his comrades. It's very sad.

The Alcatraz: Welcome to Impel Down, the most secure prison on the planet and home to its deadliest criminals. Modeled after the Buddhist hell, with multiple levels of torture and imprisonment, each more horrible than the last. Don't even think of escape, convicts, as this prison is built in the Calm Belt, entirely underwater, and surrounded by sea monsters. There's also a secret sixth level, made especially for criminals too dangerous to exist, but its existence remains unknown to the public. Until Blackbeard springs a good chunk of the population of Level Six and adds several of the worst criminals ever to his crew. So secure is Impel Down, one character went through the lengthy process of joining the Seven Warlords of the Sea just to get in, while the other had to practically crawl up a Warlord's ass.

The Alcoholic: We have Zoro, who loves drinking beer. We also have Nami, who can outdrink pretty much anyone.

Oda often clarifies minor plot details in his letter column which appears in the collected editions of the manga. Sometimes these ideas inspire parts of the story later on.

The anime only adapted the first two cover stories from the manga, meaning many important story and character developments go unmentioned and can lead to confusion as they become part of the main plot.

All Women Are Lustful: Paulie of the Galley-La company apparently believes this very strongly, and accuses any woman wearing clothing that shows off her figure (of which there are many) of being perverted. He even tries to protect his boss Iceberg from seeing Nami in a bikini while at the pool. Making it even funnier, he not only appears to be the only person in the world with this attitude, but he's a Mr. Vice Guy who was introduced while running from creditors over his gambling debts.

Don Chinjao has planned to have his grandson Sai, the leader of the Happo Navy, to marry the daughter of the general of the Nippo Navy as a bridge for the two navies to merge and become stronger. Sai in the end decides not to, though.

Yonko Big Mom's entire pirate fleet. She has 84 children from 43 husbands. She even tries to marry one of her daughters to Vinsmoke Sanji to get her hands on the Vinsmoke family's technology and empire.

One of the most infamous examples to date! When 4Kids dubbed One Piece they replaced the adventurous "We Are" opening with a rap about the plot, characters, and basically being a pirate. Many fans of the original were not pleased. Although some admit it's catchy.

The German version of One Piece also has a theme song different from the Japanese version. It can be found here.

What happens to those who are transformed into toys and forced to obey any command from the Doflamingo family in the Dressrosa arc.

King Riku and his army are controlled by Doflamingo into attacking and killing innocent people in the Dressrosa arc.

Androcles' Lion: When Luffy saves the adult Lapin from the avalanche, thereby reuniting him with the baby Lapin who had been tried in vain to dig his parent out by himself, he had no idea that same family would defend him from Wapol's lackeys later on.

Animal Motifs: Oda loves these. Every CP9 member, the three admirals, and the original Seven Warlords of the Sea all have animal themes. The Straw Hats have them too, though theirs are a bit vaguer. However, Oda has stated he's sure of at least one. He thinks.... that Chopper is a reindeer.

Animal Talk: Averted with the Zoan fruits. Simply eating, say, the Cat-Cat Fruit does not allow one to speak to cats. Chopper, however, can talk to humans and animals and act as a translator — but that's because he was originally an animal himself.

Animation Bump: Comes in several flavors. A handful of episodes are done in a style that is much brighter and more colorful and almost identical to the manga's art. Another handful of episodes are done in a more stylized manner that sacrifices detail for fluidity. The animation in general has over time been employing more detail and fluidity across the board, and the 10th Opening and especially the 15th Opening are exemplary of this.

The highly-regarded G8 filler arc (Episodes 195-205) has significantly more detailed, on-model animation than anything in the series beforehand. The show jumps to HD immediately afterwards, which also bumps the animation standard up a bit.

Episode 235 has very detailed lighting and shading, giving the episode a fittingly moody feel.

Episode 474 brings us the best animation quality yet seen, though a few moments, such as facial expressions, look rather awkward as a result.

The animation quality bumps up whenever Whitebeard does something awesome.

You may begin to notice around Thriller Bark that the animation starts to take on special qualities during key scenes, suddenly becoming highly detailed, foreshortened/shiny, and really sleek. This continues on and off hereafter on the series. That's all the work of one person, Naotoshi Shida, who is praised as the top-notch animator on One Piece. When he puts his hands to a scene, you know things are about to get very badass up in there. However, due to the immense work his animation style alone needs, you won't see it in regular use. Most notable is Naotoshi's veritable crowning achievement in the Dressrosa Arc, when Luffy transforms into his Gear Fourth state for the very first time on-screen. It's so nice, the anime uses it twice! Then there's another huge scene he got the honor of depicting: the introduction of Kaido of the Beasts! As Christopher Kol of YouTube fame (KingOfLightning) put it in his review of that fateful episode (on his twin channel KingOfLightningII due to treading water with copyrights on his main channel at the time), it's as though the characters shined themselves up in baby oil and the Supernovas had liters of sweat pouring off of them in fear.

Anime Theme Song: There are over 15, most of them being optimistic and catchy. The themes seem to generally follow the mood of the story: once the crew reunites again, the new song is even more upbeat.

Animorphism: The Zoan-type Devil Fruits allow the user to become a fully different species of animal, as well as a hybrid of that animal and their original form. There are even some sub-types of the fruits that turn the user into dinosaurs or even invincible mythical creatures.

The Rumbar Pirates were able to spend their last minutes merrily partying and singing away with quivers of poisoned arrows protruding from them, the poison being what brought them down. In the anime, this goes on for nearly five minutes.

Luffy's bedwetting "human pincushion" scene from Movie 6, although those were plant-controlled arrows.

Whitebeard does this with swords, cannonballs, and anything else the Marines throw at him. It eventually takes the entirety of the Blackbeard Pirates attacking in tandem to take him down. And he still dies standing up.

Luffy, whose crew includes a talking reindeer, a singing skeleton, and a farting cyborg, is shocked that Law has a bear in his crew.

Also the people from the Grand Line believe Skypiea to be merely a myth. This coming from a sea where islands have lightning rain and a good amount of people have strange abilities. That one of the world's most feared pirates has wings on his back, and comes from an island in the sky, for some reason does nothing to shake this view.

Whenever someone's past is mentioned, terrible events always occur on some multiple of 3 or 10 years ago. Compared to the number of people this does not apply to, it's almost like there's a triennial apocalypse... at least for any named characters.

For some reason, Oda seems very fond of 16-year-old princesses (no, not in that kind of way). Every time a new princess is properly introduced, she is always 16 years old: Vivi, Shirahoshi, Rebecca, and Scarlet (appears as a 22-year-old in Rebecca's flashback, but first gets an introduction box and becomes fleshed out as a 16-year-old in a later flashback).

The One Piece itself could count. It's rarely mentioned in the series (even Luffy talks about his goal being becoming King of the Pirates far more than finding the One Piece,) but just the mention of it sparked two ages of piracy.

Arch-Enemy: Strangely, for a series that is primarily arc-driven, this tends to crop up very frequently. The most notable case however is the D. carriers and the World Nobles. The conflict between them is implied to have gone on for centuries — the World Nobles tell their children horror stories about the D, and whenever a D starts to make a name for themselves, all the elders moan and groan about how that D "will surely bring forth another storm!" One society even branded the D as "God's Natural Enemy" with God, of course, being the World Nobles. This has not gone unsupported — look no further than Luffy's actions throughout the series. His father Dragon is even leading a revolution against the World Government, while Trafalgar Law's enmity and conflict with Donquixote Doflamingo, a former World Noble (who still kinda acts like one), is the driving force behind the Pirate Alliance saga.

Aristocrats Are Evil: The World Nobles, who take this to downright absurd levels (rape, slavery, and genocide are the mildest of their misdeeds), the nobility of the Goa Kingdom, and King Wapol. Notable aversions are:

The Nefertari and Riku families, as well as Fishman Island’s royal family—full of good people who genuinely care for their subjects.

Sabo, who regrets being born into nobility when he witnesses their cruelty and disregard for human life.

Donquixote Homing is a World Noble who gets branded a heretic simply for implying to his peers that they are human beings. He gives up his status to live among commoners. It blows up in his face, sure, but he still displays selfless behaviour in defence of his family. His son Rosinante grows up to be one of the most good-hearted characters in the entire series.

Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: One of the most memorable examples would be Luffy versus the weapon-loving Don Krieg. A good part of the fight revolved around Luffy trying a way to break his armor.

Subverted during Thriller Bark, where Luffy randomly puts on an old suit of armor for no reason other than he thought it looked cool. Then Double Subverted when the actualdanger begins and he fights bare-fisted, as always.

Mr. 3, who uses wax sculptures, and Miss Goldenweek, who uses color to paint on Standard Status Effects or other powers. They are paired together due to their art theme.

Giolla, of the Donquixote Pirates, who turns people into art.

Art Evolution: Oda's style has changed a lot over the years, becoming less round and cartoony, but also more variable. His panels are also much busier and full of activity, while in early chapters they were sometimes a bit barren.

This has carried over to the anime, which has tweaked its character designs every now and then. The style has gotten more clean, with fewer superfluous lines and details, in order to make the animation more fluid. Watch any later episode which contains a flashback to an earlier one; the difference can be surprising. Most noticeable with Chopper, who kept getting cuter little by little in the manga. In the anime, he remained the same for several years, then had his design changed to the cuter version all at once. Adorable, but jarring.

Some people in Luffy's crew have also changed appearance considerably. Specifically, Nami's and Robin's breasts have gotten a lot larger over time. Nami's change can be understandable, since some women have their boobs grow still around age 20; but Robin doesn't have that excuse. Brook has also gotten bigger even though he's long dead.

Art Shift: Three times in the anime: once in Movie 6 and in a later episode, the art (already done in a radically different style than the rest of the show) shifts to a black-and-white sketchy style. Then a minor shift appears in one of the Impel Down episodes: in the imagination of Hancock, whose fantasy version of Luffy is drawn to look Bishonen in a completely non-Oda style, complete with sparkles.

Art-Style Dissonance: Even with the zany, cartoony art style, the series can get pretty dark at times. Case in point, Ace and Whitebeard's deaths.

Hodi Jones from the Fishman Island arc started out as a fan of earlier Big Bad Arlong before becoming one himself.

Oda counts somewhat, seeing as he started out as a fan of Akira Toriyama (and Dragon Ball in particular). Eventually, he impresses the latter enough that they end up doing a one shot crossover between both franchises.

Bartolomeo the Cannibal: After hearing of Luffy's exploits in Marineford, Bartolomeo becomes a pirate and managed to amass a high bounty, a reputation as a Super Rookie, and got to the New World in the span of a year, not unlike Luffy himself. And then he gets to fight alongside his idols.

Asleep for Days: Luffy sleeps for three days after defeating Crocodile. After he's told this, he calculates that he missed 15 meals. Becomes increasingly subverted as the series progresses with Luffy first learning how to eat while unconscious, and then being able to hold a conversation, cry, express anger and eat while still sleeping!

As Lethal as It Needs to Be: It's stated that the best swordsmen can do this: Strike a sheet of paper or a tree branch harmlessly, yet cut rocks or even steel the next second. Zoro reaches this level during his battle against Mr 1 in the Alabasta arc.

As Long as It Sounds Foreign: In one SBS, Oda lampshades the fact that Robin's attack names regularly mix and match English, Spanish, and French. "It's a bit jumbled up, but it sounds nice, so no worries."

As Long as There Is One Man: After Boa Hancock petrifies Vice Captain Momonga's crew, she mockingly states that his crew is down to one. He replies that "one" is not the same as none.

Usopp is designed to look like Pinocchio. His long nose recalls Pinocchio instantly, while his large boots, knobby body, and dark skin are specifically designed to look like wooden marionette. Fittingly, he's a constant liar, who desperately wishes to become a real man.

Most of the male Baroque Works agents have their number integrated into their appearance. On the extreme end, Mr. 7 has a face consisting entirely of 7s.

Feather boa coats have been popping up everywhere since Doflamingo's rise in prominence during the Dressrosa Arc. Jack, Kaido, Charlotte Galette, and Charlotte Brulee have all sported one.

It's probably safe to assume that Oda is a leg man. Virtually every attractive female character has very long and shapely legs, and a majority of the Male Gaze in the series is decidedly aimed at them.

In most pirate crews, the captain is always the most battle-capable member of his or her crew.

Subversions:

Smoker started as a mere captain and reluctantly rose to commodore. It's been said that he'd have a much higher rank if he were more obedient and wouldn't be played straight for him until the Time Skip, where it was revealed he was promoted to Vice-Admiral.

Vice-Admiral Garp actually turned down a promotion to Admiral multiple times. The one time he's shown fighting that isn't against Luffy (and thus likely wasn't his best effort), he was fighting alongside Fleet Admiral Sengoku himself, indicating that the two are very likely on the same level. In fact, Garp's the marine who was chasing after Gold Roger, and it is repeatedly stated that the two nearly killed each other multiple times, so he's likely close to Whitebeard's level.

The World Nobles seem to have virtually-absolute authority over all the people of Sabaody Archipelago, as well as the Holy Land of Mariejois, have the authority to call an admiral and battle fleet if someone ticks them off, and yet they have no fighting ability whatsoever, aside from being allowed to carry guns.

Buggy the Clown, post-Impel Down. After freeing a crew of high-level badass pirates from the prison, a series of misunderstandings leads to both them and the Marines assuming that he's a major player, and he plays along out of a mixture of opportunism and fear of disappointing his new crew. Once the prisoners start idolizing him, however, they creatively interpret his habitual cowardice and stupidity in positive ways, landing Buggy with a dedicated crew who are ALL far more dangerous than himself. This is taken to its natural extreme in the One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 videogame, where a 'Dream Scenario' sees the world divided between three factions: The Marines, the Straw Hat and Whitebeard Alliance, and the Great Pirate Alliance... led by Buggy the Clown.

Aversions:

Spandam is weaker than your average Mook and yet is the undisputed leader of CP9, even though Lucci disdains him and could snap him in half with one finger.

All of the Galley-la foremen in Iceberg's employ are certifiably capable fighters, even those who aren't CP9. Iceberg himself... is just really good at making and repairing ships.

The mere presence of very powerful people is sufficent to knock out weaker ones.

Essentially, Haki (the superpower that lets characters like Raleigh, Hancock, Luffy, and Sentomaru pull their more outrageous stunts, including the knocking people out and hitting Logia users) is powered by a person's force of character. So yes, in One Piece, the most impressive superpower is really fueled by awesomeness.

Most of the Warlords have specific goals (Crocodile, Moria, Blackbeard), and some of them have codes of honor (Jimbei, Mihawk). By contrast, Slasher SmilingDonquixote Doflamingo appears to be absolutely batshit insane and just enjoy causing havoc and killing people… until we actually get to know the guy.

“Iron Wall” Pearl, once his Berserk Button took a hit, went completely out of control to the point of nearly burning down the ship he was fighting to capture. Even his own commander was ready to squash him.

And Magellan locked co-warden Shiliew up in the deepest level of the prison when Shiliew started killing prisoners for fun. The first thing Shiliew does upon being released to help with the prison break? Attack the guards who opened his cell.

Admiral Akainu responds to almost anything he perceives as a threat with absolutely ridiculous amounts of force... and, considering how many things he sees as threats, he goes from being ruthlessly pragmatic to a complete psychopath.

"Wet Hair" Caribou, one of the new infamous rookies that arrives on Sabaody around the end of the timeskip, may very well take the cake on this one. To drive the point home, his shirt even looks like an undone straitjacket.

For some (or perhaps many), Luffy and Ace at Marineford. Unfortunately, not for long enough... and never to be seen again.

We've got none other than Whitebeard and Roger on the cover page of Chapter 597.

Usopp, Nami and Brook pull a three way version of this trope when they're fighting off the palace guards on Fishman Island.

Backwards-Firing Gun: The anime only G8 arc had the Straw Hats (specifically Luffy, Ussop, Zoro and Robin) when the Marines corner them in a storage vault (They had raided it to recover the treasure they had gained from Skypeia). When a Marine Commander named Shepherd pulls out a gigantic gun dubbed the "Eagle Launcher" and goes to aim. But the Marines around him tell him he's pointing it the wrong way. When he doesn't believe them, he fires and predictably ends up hitting the troops behind him. What's more Robin uses her Hana Hana powers to take control of him and the gun to keep firing it, giving the Straw Hats a path to escape.

Luffy's actual grandpa, Vice-Admiral Garp "The Fist". He will get you punks off his lawn by pitching cannonballs with his bare hands.

Silvers Rayleigh definitely counts. Aside from fending off a dude packing light-speed reflexes and a lightsaber, he also swam the freaking Calm Belt, which is infested with colossal sea monsters. Also, he punched out an elephant with his mind.

Don Chin Jao. Even after Garp punched his head in, he could still match Luffy's Haki.

Admiral Fujitora, a blind old man whose cursed fruit makes him a Gravity Master with enough reach to drop meteors from space. He's also more than willing to fuck over the world nobles and tell off Akainu and get away with it.

The members of CP9 carry out assassinations and government conspiracies while looking absolutely sharp. But it's also important to note that several of them look really ridiculous wearing suits like that, especially the fat Fukurou and the hyperactive Kabuki actor Kumadori.

This seems to be spread to the Marines as well. Just look at Admiral Kizaru.

Sanji wears a black tuxedo, is elegant and kicks ass with his foot battling skills.

The entire Straw Hat crew get into the art in the tenth movie. And they all look damn sexy to boot.

Capone "Gane" Bege always wears a suit and gets all of his crew to do so too. He even made the whole Straw Hat crew wash up and put on nice clothes before discussing his plan to take down Big Mom with them.

Badass in Distress: Every main crew member (and Vivi) goes through this during their focus arcs in some respectnote Zoro in the Morgan Arc, Nami in the Arlong Arc, Usopp in the Kuro Arc, Sanji in the Baratie Arc, Vivi in the Alabasta Arc, Chopper in the Drum Arc, Robin and Franky in Enies Lobby, and Brook in Thriller Bark, to clarify.. Additionally, and despite (or due to) being the two more powerful members of the crew, Luffy and Zoro get captured/restrained/incapacitated a lot. It usually gives other characters the chance to shine.

Luffy was thrown to a pool by Arlong (rescued by Nojiko, Genzo, and Sanji), nearly executed by Buggy twice (saved by Nami and Zoro, and then by a lucky flash of lightning), thrown to a seastone cell with the rest of the crew by Crocodile (saved by Vivi and Sanji), buried alive by, again, Crocodile (rescued by one of hissubordinates) and he was also rescued by Law after he lost the will to fight or live after Ace's death.

Zoro was about to be executed when Luffy met him, and Mr. 3 almost made him, Nami, and Vivi wax figures (in this case, they were saved not solely by Luffy, but by Usopp and Carue).

The Monster Trio was captured by Moria and all of them got their shadows stolen.(Aside from this, though, Sanji is almost never captured, thus averting this trope).

Luffy and Ace also go through this badly in Impel Down and Marineford, respectively. Luffy gets better with help from Bon Clay, Mr. 3, Buggy, Crocodile, Mr. 1, Ivankov, Jimbei, and numerous others. Ace doesn't.

Trafalgar Law numerous times in Dressrosa, allowing Luffy to return the favor from Marineford.

Sanji in the Zou/Whole Cake Island arcs, as his family and Big Mom have kidnapped him to try and force him into marriage.

Badass Longcoat: It should be stated that 97% of all the Badass Longcoat wearing characters' arms are NEVER within their coat's sleeves and just have them hang from their shoulders while they fight (or many cases Curb Stomp) as per Rule of Cool. The characters who wear them are:

Most high-ranking Marine officers.

Mr. 5 of Baroque Works.

Alvida.

Gold Roger and John Giant, who seem to have been the only character badass enough to actually wear his badass longcoat with his arms in the sleeves.

Eustass Kid, who wears a coat sleeve on his right arm, but not his left.

Usopp doesn't have Devil Fruit powers, but can keep up in fights to some extent with his gadgets and gimmicks.

Sanji and Zoro are just a cook with insanely good foot battling skills and an excellent swordsman, respectively. They can easily face enemies that have Devil Fruit powers.

Nami has very little physical power or fighting skill to speak of, and no Devil Fruit powers, but still manages to take down fairly tough opponents (and cuts large swathes through the Marines' Red Shirt Army) with her Clima Tact, a Weather-Control Machine that her navigational skills allow her to do things with that not even Usopp, its original creator, could think of.

Mihawk is kinda this compared to the other Seven Warlords of the Sea, being the only one to so far possess neither Devil Fruit powers or Fishman abilities.

Surrounded by guys who shoot lasers, freeze oceans, and turn into Buddha, Garp stands out as a Marine capable of extreme badassery (he was the Pirate King's nemesis) despite having no apparent Devil Fruit power.

Roger himself also counts. To the best of our knowledge so far, he had no Devil Fruit powers. He appears to have had the ability to understand any language, but that isn't what made him the greatest pirate to ever live. His crew also seems to have been this.

Out of the former members of Gold Roger's crew that we've seen so far, only Buggy has been shown to have a Devil Fruit power, and he ate his entirely by accident. In Buggy's flashback, the crew express the opinion that losing the ability to swim isn't worth the power, and when Buggy, probably one of the lowest-ranked people on the ship, declares that he's going to eat it, no one really seems to care. In fact, the rest of the crew comment on how stupid he's being.

Red-Hair Shanks parried a fist of lava with a sword. Note that Shanks only has one arm.

Badasses Wear Bandanas: Zoro and Whitebeard are the primary examples. Blackbeard also wore one in the past and bandanas in general, as you might expect, are popular among pirates and pop up fairly often.

Blackbeard is first introduced as a rather jolly Boisterous Bruiser and Affably Evil type. Fast forward to the Marineford battle where he gleefully and brutally murders Whitebeard who he once called "father" for twenty years and steals Whitebeard's Devil Fruit abilities, revealing himself to be always a power-hungry megalomaniac.

Eustass Kidd is first seen disgusted with the World Government slave auctions and setting himself as a Worthy Opponent to Luffy and Law. A hundred chapters later, he's seen crucifying pirates attempting to flee the most dangerous sea of the New World.

Law himself isn't as mellow as he was once thought to be. In chapter 659, it's revealed he sent 100 hearts of pirates to the World Government to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Completely inverted with Jimbei. When he was first mentioned by Yosaku as Arlong's former captain and the one who set Arlong into East Blue, everyone assumed that Jimbei would be set up as a major villain later on. Who would have thought that he was in fact a honorable and decent person, became one of the Straw Hats' biggest allies and be invited by Luffy to join the crew?

Balance of Power: Marine Headquarters + the Seven Warlords of the Sea vs. the Four Emperors.

However, the Four Emperors aren't allied with each other, so that makes the balance even more precarious, to the point where the World Government was shitting itself at the prospect of Shanks and Whitebeard simply talking.

Essentially, the Whitebeard war arc shows that Marine Headquarters + the Seven Warlords of the Sea are about equal to one of the Emperors and their allies. Luckily, the Four Emperors contend with each other too. Also, smaller pirate crews and groups (kept in check by all of these factions) are always trying to upset the balance. When Whitebeard died, smaller crews and the other Emperors rushed to fill the void, at the expense of civilians.

Though to be fair the marineford arc may not be an accurate representation of world government vs an emperor. On Whitebeard's side, he only had 14 division commanders out of 16(with Ace captured and Thatch dead) and Whitebeard himself had one foot in the grave before the war started, not to mention WB was only defeated because the blackbeard pirates attacked him while not acting under WG orders. On the other side, only 5 of the 7 warlords showed up to aid the government(one of which attacked marine forces as well as pirates), Garp(one of the marines most powerful combatants, if not THE most powerful) refused to participate in most of the battle, and Whitebeards forces were aided by the Impel Down escapees which included an infamous rookie pirate, two revolutionaries, 2 former warlords, Buggy, Mr 1, Mr 3, and a whole lot of dangerous criminals.

The Movie 10 tie-in episodes give us Largo, the male mariachi-themed aspirant for a position amongst Gold Lion Shiki's armada.

Kaku's half-giraffe form also pulls this off, managing to show that Zoan's clothing deformation has limits.

The Baroness: Kalifa from the Galley-La company is of the sexpot kind.

Base on Wheels: Capone "Gang" Bege is a base on legs. His insides appear to be more like a fortress, where an army of tiny people, cannons, and horses reside. And while they may look puny from inside his body, they grow to normal size instantly after moving a foot or two away from him.

Bastard Angst: Ace is the bastard son of Pirate King Gold Roger, and as such he has a big stigma put on him. All his life he always wonders whether he deserves to be born because of this.

Bastard Girlfriend: Hancock, of course. She can kick a kitten, she can insult pretty much anyone she wants and she can turn people into stone without anyone caring. Why? Because she is beautiful.

Blackbeard is the man with a plan. He successfully defeats and captures Ace and hands him over to the Marines, earning him the title of Warlord of the Sea. Knowing Whitebeard's familial protectiveness, a chain of events would lead up to a war between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines at Marineford, which gave him a clear opening to break into Impel Down and recruit the most dangerous and powerful prisoners into his crew.

But the gambit doesn't stop there; after that part's success, he takes his crew to Marineford, where he knew Whitebeard would have been worn down from taking on the World Government's full force. He then has his entire crew attack Whitebeard, finally killing him, and then proceeds to steal the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit from him. And as if his threat level wasn't already Up to 11 with that move, he then proceeds to usurp Whitebeard's territories and titles, both that of the Strongest Man in the World and that of one of the Four Emperors. The bottom line? A monster pulled off a successful Batman Gambit, and has officially become the series' Big Bad.

Featured heavily in one of the TV specials, Adventure of Nebulandia, where the villain keeps employing the Batman Gambit to get the better of The Straw Hats every step of the way. Parodied in the same special at the end by Nami, who preemptively counteracts against Foxy when she just "knew" that he was going to attack Luffy again.

Battle-Interrupting Shout: Happens not one, but many times. First, it is subverted by Princess Vivi as per Rule of Drama when she tried to stop the revolutionary army from attacking the royal palace. Played remarkably straight by Luffy later on: when he screams for a crowd to stop, he can actually cause an entire battlefield to faint and froth at the mouth.

Battle Tops: Captain Buggy's First Mate uses spinning tops in one of his attacks.

Battle Trophy: Impressed by Shuusui, Zoro stated that he will claim it as his own. When the battle was over, Ryuuma acknowledged his loss by giving the sword voluntarily to Zoro.

Be Careful What You Wish For: When the Toy Soldier/Kyros was human and no one let him forget he was murderer, he wished that people would simply forget his existence. After building a happy life for himself, his wish came true where everyone including his loved ones forgot they existed.

Beam Spam: When he feels up to it, Kizaru can unleash an absolute hail of laser blasts.

Bepo, of the Heart Pirates, is a Kung-Fu Bear, but he's a pretty nice guy... er, bear.

Bartholomew Kuma can get rid of anyone just by touching them with his hand, but spared the Straw Hats twice, even though he had orders to kill them the first time, and he's supposedly the Warlord who's most loyal to the World Government.

Beard of Evil: Brownbeard manages to take this trope Up to 11. He has an evil beard which splits into three additional beards.

Beast Man: This trope applies to anyone who eats the Zoan class of Devil Fruits, as they can transform into a certain animal at will depending on the fruit.

Also applies to the mink tribe.

Beat Still, My Heart: In chapter 662, Law literally pokes out Smoker's heart. Law then is seen holding Smoker's heart as Smoker himself slumps down.

In the Davy Back Fight, one pirate crew challenges another to a series of games with crew members as the prize. Naturally, the Straw Hats win, but there's still some drama along the way.

The members of CP9, confident in their skills, make a game out of rescuing Robin by dividing five keys between themselves, one of which unlocks Robin's handcuffs. Of course, we all know what happened there. And even earlier in the Arlong arc, when the titular fishman throws Luffy into the water and proclaims to Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp that it's a game to save him by beating the Quirky Miniboss Squad. Three fishmen beatdowns later (as well as some CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable on the part of Nojiko and Genzo; the crew didn't quite get to their captain in time), and Luffy is freed to deliver some much overdue pain onto Arlong.

Beauty Equals Goodness: Generally speaking, most of the overtly evil or otherwise unpleasant people range from brutish looking to exaggeratedly ugly in comparison to the Straw Hats, other good guys, or even the morally neutral characters. It is occasionally subverted though; Sanji's brothers are all pretty boys much like Sanji himself, but they're some of the nastier characters around. And on the flip side, we have Lola who's a Gonk but is one of the nicer characters in the series.

Double Subversion in Nami's case. Her skin sometimes shows pretty serious damage during her more intense fights, but in the long run, it is still practically flawless, despite the fact that she's been slashed or stabbed more than any character besides Luffy or Zoro. Hell, this trope might count for everyone besides Zoro, who's the only one in the entire crew series to retain the scars from his battles. It should be mentioned, though, that in the illustrations from an old light novel set in Loguetown, Nami does have a rather noticeable scar on her shoulder where she stabbed out her Arlong tattoo.

An especially egregious case is Rebecca, a gladiator forced to fight repeatedly in the Corrida Colosseum. Whereas her male colleagues have all sorts of terrible scars and disconfigurations, her body is totally devoid of them. Justified, as it is mentioned that she has never been hit in a fight.

The anthropomorphic personification of this is the Slip-Slip Fruit, which makes the eater so slippery that attacks slide right off them.

For what it's worth, this trope was finally and disturbingly Averted in the case of Vinsmoke Niji and his chef. Cosette, the head chef of the Germa Kingdom, is a cute young woman that Sanji defends from his brother when he decides to attack her due to not liking the food she made. When Sanji's back is turned, Niji brutally beats her bloody, bruised, and unconscious to a level that Oda normally reserves exclusively for male characters.

Sanji used one of his strongest known attacks on Luffy, causing him to lose a tooth. The tooth stayed lost for a few chapters, but was restored when Luffy drank some calcium-rich milk, restoring his original looks.

During the Baratie arc, Gin of Don Krieg's crew ends up fighting Sanji and having the chance to kill him. Gin can't bring himself to, though, since Sanji was the one who gave him the food he asked for. Apparently, it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for him up to that point.

Chopper was treated as a monster for his whole life, but when Dr. Hiluluk met him, he gave Chopper a name and treated him as his own son. Even years after the doctor's death, Chopper won't hear a single bad word about him, even fighting Wapol and his two henchmen for trying to destroy Hiluluk's flag.

In the Alabasta arc, Vivi asks Sanji to get all of them some clothes like the local citizens, so they won't stand out as much. The boys all got burkas. The girls? Dancing Girl Outfits. His excuse was that 'dancing girls are citizens too!' If Nami hadn't liked it so much, he would probably be lacking a few vital organs.

Weaponized later by Sandersonia's Snake Dance, which allows her to use belly dance-like motions and Color of Observation Haki to dodge incoming blows.

Nami and Robin's slave outfits in Heart of Gold are very close to what a dancer would wear.

Bequeathed Power: Whenever a Devil Fruit user dies, their powers are reborn into a new Devil Fruit, which is the case of Ace's Flame Flame fruit.

Berserker Tears: Since most of the People Puppets Doflamingo controls can't do jack about it, several of the controlled people cry these tears as Doflamingo forces them to kill each other. Two notable examples include King Riku being forced to slaughter his people, and Rebecca being forced to charge at and attack her aunt Viola (Though Luffy and Law fortunately saved them both in the nick of time).

Best Her to Bed Her: Alvida is infatuated with Luffy because of this trope, though she's apparently okay with killing him. If he's able to be killed, then he wasn't the man she was looking for. She has faith in his ability to survive.

The Strawhats overall count as this. They're not saints, and they may he violent(Zoro), greedy(Nami), and deceitful(Ussop), but as pirates go they're among the few that stand up for and aid civilians. In fact they spend most of their time fighting other pirates and only act against the world government when provoked.

Spandam has a sword that ate a devil fruit, and Mr. 4 had a gun that ate one. Both of these have the same explanation which has been touched upon but not yet fully explained - somehow Dr. Vegapunk managed to figure out how to get inanimate objects to "eat" devil fruits. This may be expanded upon in the future.

Big Bad Wannabe: Entirely determined by events outside of his control, Buggy the Clown has become this in the Impel Down and Marineford arcs. The World Government assumes that he's Four Emperors level because he was on Gold Roger's crew along with Shanks, an actual Emperor. Every action he takes will inevitably be interpreted by the followers he picked up at Impel Down as part of some massively elaborate gambit. It doesn't help that after both Luffy's and Buggy's crews enter the Grand Line, nearly everything that Buggy does ends up helping the Straw Hats out in some way. Post-Timeskip, the farce escalated to such a point that Buggy's now one of the Seven Warlords.

Ace, the older brother, is rather protective of his younger brother, Luffy.

Once Sabo meets up again with Luffy, one of the first things he does is protect his little brother from one of Blackbeard's men who would have wiped the floor with Luffy at the time.

On a not-literally-siblings note, Zoro tends to be most protective of the crew's youngest member, Chopper.

Big Brother Is Watching: Thanks to his extremely advanced Mantra power, Eneru is able to sense the movements and thoughts of EVERYONE on Skypeia. And thanks to his Devil Fruit power, he's able to punish anyone he wants with a giant frickin'lightning bolt (That move is essentially a human version of the Kill Sat). It seems like the only reason he doesn't just single-handedly wipe out all resistance completely is that he would get bored.

The entire Straw Hat crew seems to constantly be doing this on the large scale. They arrive at an island JUST in time to be around as the various events come to a head.

If one of the weaker Straw Hats are in jeopardy, you can expect Sanji to materialize from nothing to deliver a kick to a villain's face.

Right in the middle of the war between Whitebeard's Pirates and the World Government, Luffy and the Impel Down escapees fall in from the sky.

At Enies Lobby, Merry saves the crew when they get trapped between Marine battleships. That's right, in One Piecea boat can be this trope.

In chapter 578, Trafalgar Law pops up at Marineford to save Luffy's life. Moments later, Shanks steals Law's thunder by ending the whole war without firing a shot.

A particularly strong example was in Strong World when the whole crew, minus Nami, marched into Shiki’s HQ carrying cannons, which never appeared anywhere else in canon yet, and then proceeded to use them against the rather large force of Pirate Captains and mooks gathered there as a way of saying “hello” before the action really started.

Looks like Luffy's family is fond of eating a lot. We have seen Ace and Garp do this.

Jewelry Bonney eats huge amounts of food at an amazing speed, yet she's totally slim and attractive. She's also known in-universe as the "Big Eater". Yes, the name of this trope.

Lucky Roux, one of Shanks's crewmates, is notably the only big eater in the series who is actually fat (or indeed, in anything but amazing shape).

Crappy king Wapol, whose Devil Fruit allows him to eat everything, from planks of wood to cannonballs, and take on their proprieties. And yet his powers enable him to become as slim as the aforementioned examples.

Luffy takes this Up to 11 at the end of the Arabasta arc. He's given an entire cartful of fruit to snack on while he waits for dinner to be prepared. He eats all the fruit, within a nanosecond; literally if you blink you'll miss it. Also added that he doesn't even bother to peel said fruit or that he eats two cardboard boxes along with it. Zoro and Sanji shout out of what Luffy just did was some kind of trick.

Luffy finally met his match in Totland. When Pudding "hired him to dismantle her shop" because he found it too good not to eat, he and chopper together couldn't finish it in a single sitting.

Big Good: Shared and switched amongst various contenders throughout the story. Chronologically speaking, Gold Roger kickstarted the Golden Age of the Pirates, but he's a Posthumous Character, while Dragon remains the most powerful opponent to the World Government, as head of the Revolutionaries. An old rival to Roger, Garp, Sengoku, and Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate had this role thrown upon his shoulders during the Marineford arc, while "Red-Haired" Shanks (a former crewmate of Roger) operates as something of a Bigger Good. After the Whitebeard War, Silvers Rayleigh (Roger's first mate) briefly worked as Luffy's mentor and trainer prior to the Time Skip, but there's a chance he'll return once again.

Big "NEVER!": Uttered by pretty much everyone aside from Luffy in Thriller Bark, when Kuma offered to let them live if they handed Luffy over.

Bilingual Bonus: Usopp's least favorite food is mushrooms. Sopp is the word for mushroom in Norwegian. U put before a word is like un-something in English. So if one think of it as Norwegian, does his name mean Unmushroom.

Billing Displacement: In-Universe example: after escaping from Impel Down, the marine holds Luffy and Buggy responsible — completely ignoring the two former Warlords that were involved.

Parodied with Sanji's Parage Shot, which is capable of literally beating people pretty. Iron Mask Duval was grateful; Wanze of CP7 was not.

Sanji himself is also a Downplayed example, as he's always had facial hair of some sort; he falls more in line with the American version of the trope, Pretty Boy. His brother Ichiji, however, is a straight example.

In the anime, we get to see Luffy from Hancock's point of view, where he is very, veryBishounen, complete with sparkles.

As of the Dressrosa arc, we got the nobleman pirate Cavendish.

Bishonen Line: Rob Lucci uses Seimei Kikan to make his half-leopard form smaller and more maneuverable, but he has to change back to normal to use his strongest attack.

Bittersweet Ending: The ending of Marineford. Ace and Whitebeard have been killed, Luffy stays without his nakama for about two years (though it was his choice), and the world is now under a new age of even more piracy. Despite this, Luffy and his crew resolve to continue their adventure with high spirits and never give up on their dreams.

Bizarro Elements: Due to Oda disallowing the creation of any Devil fruit power he plans on using in the future, the anime team has to get pretty creative with making up Logia fruit elements for their fillers. Some of their gems include the "Paper Paper fruit" and the "Candy Candy fruit" (allowing the user to transform into a gummy bear, essentially). Finally made canon by manga chapter 863, where we discover that Charlotte Katakuri wields the power of the Mochi-Mochi no Mi.

Black and Grey Morality: It's hard to say which of the two groups, Pirates or Marines is the Black and who's the Grey. Pirates are shown on screen, and often, like Kid Eustace, admit they're not nice people and do some seriously nasty things. On the other hand, the Marines, as a group, are shown doing just as bad, if not worse, while preaching about justice, further, the Marine's chain of command does things that even the most heinous of pirates (though there are notable exceptions) would balk at considering, like wiping out their subordinates for simply requesting to be pulled out of a fight they can't win, or even asking to stop the fight to allow for treating the wounded and dying. The final nail in the coffin for the Marines has to be that they willingly serve a World Government who allows a group of people, the "World Dragons," to call themselves "gods" and break laws, like buying and selling human slaves that they'd execute anyone, and their entire families and bloodlines for even considering.

Blank White Eyes: Happens to every villain who has been deafeated by Luffy and won't be getting back up again (for the moment). Also happens to Luffy when he realizes that Ace died right in front of him.

Blessed with Suck: A highly uncommon trait in this series, since important characters tend to be very good at exploiting their strengths, no matter how weak they may seem.

Brook's Revive-Revive Fruit allows nothing more than coming back from the dead. His soul took so long finding his body that it had rotted to only bones by the time Brook fully revived. Plus, it's implied this power only works once, so Brook is now left with the negative effects of a Devil Fruit. Regardless, even Brook has found ways to put his light, bones-only body to good use.

The Revive-Revive fruit also keeps you in whatever state you were in when it kicked in permanently, essentially bestowing semi-immortality; the user can't age or die of natural causes, but they can be killed by other means. This turned out to be more of a curse for Brook since it led to him spending fifty years all alone on a deserted ship.

And the most horrific side-effect of all: if someone cuts off Brook's afro, it will never grow back. Though it does mean a lot in Brook's case, as his afro is the only thing that will allow Laboon to ever recognize him. Hence why he's so protective of it.

Coby spontaneously ends up developing Haki. Observation Haki, to be specific, meaning he can hear voices of people from far away and know exactly what they're doing. Cool, right?... except he develops it right in the middle of the Whitebeard War, meaning his first experience with it is masses of people dying. And he hears every single one. Oh... and he can't control it yet, meaning he'll keep hearing people's voices and pain until he learns to turn it off.

Pierre is a giant bird that ate the Horse-Horse Fruit, which gave him the power to transform into a horse or into a hybrid form that (supposedly) resembles a pegasus. Since he can already fly and is big enough to carry his owner, the Horse-Horse Fruit only made him unable to swim. On the other hand, since Pierre doesn't have flippers, he probably could never swim anyways.

Subverted for Corazon, whose Calm-Calm Fruit allows him to erase all sound, either from the environment or from a person's own actions. Even he can't explain what it's good for, other than some peace and quiet. Until he has to steal the Ope-Ope Fruit, which is under guard by a large pirate force. He very cleverly uses lack of sound to distract them and steal the fruit before they realize what's happening. Later, he uses the power to allow Law to remain undetected by the Donquixote pirates.

Blinding Bangs: Carrot of the now disbanded Usopp Pirates. Also Sadi-Chan from Impel Down, and Killer when he was a child.

Subverted with Charlotte Pudding. While we can her eyes just fine, she uses her bangs to cover up the Third Eye she has most of the time.

Blood Brothers: When Luffy, Ace and Sabo were kids, they shared a drink together. Because of some tradition, this meant that they were all now brothers. This explains why Luffy always called Ace his older brother.

Bloodier and Gorier: The Paramount War contains the most graphic injuries in the series thus far.

In one of the filler arcs, an amnesiatic Luffy and Zoro get into a fight. Luffy gets hit with Zoro's Oni Giri attack, which tears his vest and leaves visible cut marks that remain for the rest of the episode, but there's no blood, despite the fact that he was previously shown bleeding from a cut on his cheek.

All fights are this way in the 4Kids version, replacing any blood with dirt and bruising, or nothing at all.

Even the main series, which doesn't shy away from showing blood, has suprisingly little of the stuff when the dragon on Punk Hazard is beheaded.

Blood Upgrade: Pearl from Don Krieg's crew, who becomes more unpredictable when he realizes he's bleeding.

Bloody Hilarious: In an early Fishman Island chapter, Sanji ended up having his face squeezed into a mermaid's breasts whilst hiding from the three mermaid princes. The result is that Sanji has a nosebleed so powerful that it erupts into the air in the shape of a mermaid. This proves disastrous because just moments ago, Chopper told everyone that Sanji has a rare blood type and he had just run out. So if Sanji had another high-pressure nosebleed, he would be in big trouble.

Bloody Murder: Crocodile's only weakness is liquid, as getting wet prevents him from using his sand powers. What does Luffy use when he has no water? His own blood. In the 4Kids version, this was changed to sweat.

Blush Sticker: The following people have oval blushes at one point or another in the series: Boa Hancock, Bon Clay, Miss Goldenweek, the mermaid princess Shirahoshi and Chuu the Fishman from the Arlong Arcnote in the anime, at least.

Boisterous Bruiser: The giants of Elbaf are a Proud Warrior Race in this vein from what we've seen so far. Blackbeard fits the trope to a T despite being a villain. If anything, his cheerful big guy attitude is what makes his evil actions unsettling. His crewmate Burgess is one with a little bit of Blood Knight mixed in.

Big Bad Gold Lion Shiki from the tenth movie and his assistant doctor Indigo have this going on. The OAV of "Chapter 0" shows they were going at it over 20 years back as well.

Often happens between Nami, Usopp, and Luffy.

Bond Villain Stupidity: The CP9 agents, attempting to eliminate people who know of their existence, tie up Paulie and Iceburg and leave them in a burning building. This is after they've fully explained how they can kill a man with no more than their index finger.

More often than not, if there's a female in the series who's a deadly fighter, they're bound to have large breasts as well. The only exceptions are those who are too young or too old (or too ugly). This isn't limited to how strong the character was initially — if a female character starts getting stronger, expect their bust size to increase as well. Nami goes through this, for example, most notably during the Time Skip.

At first, Princess Shirahoshi looks to be an exception, but then you realize that she's the modern incarnation of the Ancient Weapon Poseidon and possesses to control Sea Kings and possibly use them to tear islands apart — fitting considering she has the largest pair in the series.

Book Ends: Many individual story arcs have a consistent theme, and begin and end with a similar event. For example, in the Arlong Arc, the first flashback we see of Nami's childhood has her stealing from the villagers. At the end of the arc, as she's leaving with the Straw Hats, she pickpockets a number of them on the way to the ship.

Boom, Headshot: In Luffy's flashback to his time with Shanks, Shanks is held at gunpoint by a mountain bandit. Shanks calmly tells the man that guns are for killing, not threatening, at which point Lucky Roux headshots the bandit point blank.

The Japanese anime also did this occasionally, with respect to the manga. When Luffy gets hit by Jango's chakram, it originally goes straight into the back of his head; the anime changes this into a mouth catch that slightly cuts the corners of his lips. Bellemere is shot between the eyes in the manga, while the anime has her shot in the chest. There are various other incidences as well, though they're relatively minor.

... Except for one: According to the anime guide One Piece RAINBOW, Sanji is 20. Word of God in the manga states unequivocally that he's 19, and none of the characters are getting any older. This may have to do with Japanese broadcast TV standards, which allow adults to be shown smoking ("adults" being defined as anyone age 20 or over), but not minors.

Another instance in the anime. During Sanji's fight with Absalom, Absalom stabs him in the back with a knife, and Sanji manages to locate him thanks to him stepping in a pool of his blood. However, thanks to the Akihabara Massacre about a week prior, the knife and blood was hastily edited out in the anime, resulting in Sanji apparently getting hit with a normal blow and locating Absalom without help. Foreign broadcasts, and presumably the DVDs, remain unedited.

Similar above, Episodes 679 and 680 of the anime were censored for broadcast due to real life trageties at the time involving terrorists. These changes included editing the episodes so we don't see Donflamingo's marionette without its head, and editing some blood out when it did a scratch attack on Luffy's back. Like above, this was uncut on the DVD/Blu-ray release.

There were two major bowdlerizations done in the Marineford Arc: when Ace was given the killing blow from Akainu, the carnage done to his torso was heavily reduced to a blank hole and much less blood. Also, most importantly, while Whitebeard got half of his face blown off from one of Akainu's attacks in the manga, the anime changed it to losing half of his moustache. Understandably, if the anime kept this gorey detail in, it would definitely change the rating closer to those of darker anime.

In Nami's flashback, Bell-Mere offers to pay for a book by "paying with her body", and at one point, 10-year-old Nami offers the same, apparently having learned to mimic Bell-Mere's feminine wiles a bit too well. In the Danish translation, Bell-Mere's line is kept, though rephrased to be a bit more subtle ("I'll give you something in return... tonight"), but when Nami parrots it, her line is changed to "I'll pay you with a kiss", probably to avoid the unfortunate undertones of the original line.

Also Luffy in the Syrup Island arc briefly, though in this case it didn't work so well for the villains.

Break the Cutie: Nami, Robin, Zoro, Chopper, and Franky's backstories all have at least elements of this.

The Impel Down and Marineford arcs are all one long and painful line of Break the Cutie for Luffy.

Break His Heart to Save Him: A non-romantic example in the Totland story arc when his father threatening Zeff's life forces Sanji to turn on the Straw Hats, telling Luffy he's sick of hanging around with a loser like him when he can be on the winning side by staying with his family and marrying Charlotte Linlin's beautiful daughter Pudding, even brutally beating the stuffing out of Luffy to try and drive him away. It doesn't work because Luffy's faith in Sanji is too strong for him to even consider that Sanji really means it.

Breakout Character: Currently no character, Straw Hat or not, has nearly the popularity Tony Tony Chopper enjoys in Japan. From the sheer amount of merchandise featuring him - shirts, hats, figurines, watches, candy, underwear, his own spin-off Chopperman - and Luffy sometimes, you'd think both are the only pirates in the series.

When Robin leaves the crew and they go after her in the CP9 arc. She was coerced into leaving in exchange for keeping the Straw Hats safe.

Earlier in the CP9 arc, Usopp leaves the crew when he fights Luffy over what should be done with the crippled Going Merry. It was a brutal fight with Usopp losing. Later at the end of the arc, after spending much of the time fighting with the crew under a pseudonym, he hopes to be Easily Forgiven with him saying nothing about his actions, but Zoro puts his foot down to stop it as unlike what Robin went through, it was his choice. Until he apologizes, he shouldn't be allowed back in the crew.

On Totland, Sanji fought Luffy with all his strength and insults him to get Luffy to leave the island without angering the Vinsmokes. Sanji eventually learns Pudding plans to kill him and his family so goes to apologise to Luffy, who tells him it's water under the bridge.

Breath Weapon: Several, including Franky's ability to literally breathe fire and Kuma's ability to shoot lasers from out of his mouth.

One that isn't entirely a joke but becomes funny through the effect: Luffy lunges at Wapol, saying "Gum Gum Bul—" right before a three-chapter flashback. Once the flashback is over, it cuts right back to Luffy finishing the "—let!" as he punches Wapol. Even funnier is that it lands on the last page of the volume and comes out of nowhere after all that flashback.

There's a Running Gag about Sanji's wanted poster not resembling him in the least. Then, they encounter Duval, a poor sap who perfectly resembles the poster, and has been pursued by bounty hunters due to mistaken identity. In chapter 495, it's revealed he was born that way.

At the start of the Fishman Island arc, Luffy complains to Jimbei that he is not a hero, because heroes have to share their meat. At the near end, Zoro says the same thing, but with booze.

In the letters column of chapter 452 Oda says that while Chopper is not attracted to human women, he might fall in love at first sight if he sees a pretty reindeer. 362 chapters (roughly seven years) later Chopper sees a deer Mink and instantly pops heart-shaped Wingding Eyes.

Bring My Brown Pants: Usopp tends to balance out Luffy's red shirt moments nicely, to the point it just gets funnier when you notice they wear the garments in question. Though currently, Buggy had almost done this when Whitebeard called him out on wanting to take his head.

Bring the Anchor Along: In the Skypeia arc, Luffy's first fight with God Eneru ends with Eneru throwing Luffy off his airship with a giant gold ball attached to his arm. That ball stays on Luffy's am for nearly the entire rest of the arc. It's broken off of Luffy's arm and smashed to pieces in the course of the final attack against Eneru.

Broken Bird: Robin's detached nature is due to years of being a fugitive from the World Government and persecution due to her ability to read Poneglyphs. It wasn't until the Straw Hats actually declared war on the World Government to prove how they considered her one of their own that she realized that she had found her place.

This happens to Wyper, who is exhausted from "killing" Eneru, who restarted his own heart, and eliminated the former.

Subverted in the case of Luffy (naturally), who should've been completely exhausted from taking in 100 shadows to pulverize Oars, but when the former rises up to fight again, Luffy prepares to get up, ready for action, merely stating "Damn, I'm too tired for this!", then leading the Straw Hats to defeat him anyway, with him giving the finishing blow.

In the same battle, the Big Bad Gekko Moriah took in a thousand shadows and Luffy simply went into Gear Second, made Moria spit some of the shadows out, before using Gear Third on top of it and knocking him into the mast, defeating him. Using either one of the Gears puts great strain on him, so you can imagine how stacking them worked out.

Played painfully straight one arc later. When confronted with Impel Down's Chief Warden Magellan, whose entire body is covered in paralyzing, flesh-melting poison, Luffy decides to strike him down with one Gear Second-enhanced attack, hoping that poisoning can be resisted with sheer willpower. Magellan takes the attack head-on, seems knocked out for a brief second, then swiftly recovers and curbstomps Luffy, who is nearly disabled by poison.

And let's not forget Luffy's battles with Crocodile, the first two fights go without saying. During the third fight, Luffy had been bleeding profusely, only when covered in his own blood was he able to hit Crocodile. Coupled with that Crocodile's poison hook had infected Luffy with a lethal poison multiple times throughout the fight. By the time Crocodile had finally been knocked unconscious, Luffy was laying there dying of poison.

Ace got sidetracked by one particular enemy badmouthing Whitebeard, and decided to make him pay for it. Big mistake.

Brought to You by the Letter "S": Over the course of the series, Luffy, Nami, Sanji, and some others can be seen with shirts that have numbers on them. Not surprisingly, Luffy's number is 1. Also, Nami's number is 57. Also on the cover of chapter 775, the crew is seen cycling down Route 325. These digits in Japanese are san ni go, or Sunny Go, the name of the Strawhats' ship.

Luffy is quite a bit of this too. Considering Trafalgar Law's willingness to team up with Luffy, even with knowledge of Luffy's immaturity.

Law had no knowledge of Luffy's immaturity. Both times he saw/met Luffy prior to the time-skip, Luffy was in "business-mode" and Law is visibly shocked at the Straw Hats carefree behaviour when he gets to know them better.

CP9 is a double example. Despite being a group of wacky and quirky individuals, they are a frighteningly effective group of assassins. Despite being a frighteningly effective group of assassins, they are capable of being legitimately talented shipwrights too, shipwrights who themselves have a number of bizarre characteristics.

Buried Alive: "Wet Hair" Caribou and "Blood Splatterer" Coribou have a reputation for doing this to Marines.

When they were learning about dials, Luffy is told to speak into a tone dial to record his voice. What does Luffy say? "Usopp's an idiot!"

Sanji also tends to get the worst of things. His wanted poster picture is a hand drawn piece of crap, someone who looks JUST LIKE THE PICTURE tries to kill him because of it, not to mention getting blasted to an island of TRANSVESTITES — oh, and later he gets turned into one.

One Word, and a letter: Pirate A.

Mohmoo. Every appearance he's made on this show has resulted in some new trauma for him.

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